Artifact Details

Title

Catalog Number

Type

Date

Manufacturer

Place Manufactured

U.S.

Dimensions

in box: 1.5 x 19.5 x 10 in

Copyright Holder

Creative Computing

Description

Object consists of box, instructions, game board, game cards and game pieces.

Category

Ephemera: other

Curator Notes

Computer Rage was first released in 1977, the same year the Commodore PET, Apple II, and TRS-80 were introduced into the personal computing landscape. A play on words of the burgeoning personal computer age, the basic rules of this board game were based on a simplified version of modern computer operations. Player’s pieces represented “Programs” and pieces moved according to rolls of three “binary dice.” The first player to make it all the way from “Input” to “Output” won the game.